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Shakespeare got his ideas from his black lover who was a better writer than he was, but never had a career because racism and sexism. Who knew?
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In “Emilia,” a new play running through Sept. 1 at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, the British playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm centers on Emilia Bassano, one of the first professional female writers in Shakespearean England. The play imagines her as Shakespeare’s lover and muse — and as an even better writer. But Shakespeare goes from triumph to triumph, while Emilia faces the realities of being a woman in 17th-century Britain, and struggling to publish.
The play is a meditation and a provocation, staged with an all-female cast including Clare Perkins and Carolyn Pickles.
Here are edited extracts from a conversation with the play’s director, Nicole Charles, about Shakespeare, race and gender in an era of “woke” politics.
“Emilia might have been of color, might have had a mixed heritage. There is just no evidence of that, because people had no interest in recording it.”
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